Squeak's role in a larger world?

John Tobler squeakie at visto.com
Fri Oct 1 18:34:43 UTC 1999


Tim Rowledge wrote:
>> AFAIK, Squeak is not yet embeddable.
> Not in the sense of being able to put an image 
> in rom and run out of rom, no. 

This usage of "embeddable" has nothing to do with "embedded 
systems" and is not a hardware-related issue.  It has, 
rather, to do with easily using one language from within 
another.  

For example, Python is embeddable because you can 
relatively seamlessly invoke a Python interpreter from 
within another language.  This makes it easy, for example, 
to write Python scripts and have them run from within a 
C/C++ program.  If I remember correctly, a complete Python 
interpreter is provided in a shared library (dll, for 
Windows) along with the appropriate API hooks to allow it 
to be invoked from within another language system.

In context, then, Squeak would be embeddable if a mechanism 
existed such that you could (easily) execute Squeak-
compliant Smalltalk code from within a program in another 
language.  


/John

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